{"id":1400,"date":"2017-06-30T17:42:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T17:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2017-08-02T15:07:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T15:07:43","slug":"for-the-love-of-jesus-a-study-into-the-commandments-of-jesus-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=1400","title":{"rendered":"For the Love of Jesus: A Study into the Commandments of Jesus Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Jesus said, \u201cIf ye love me, keep my commandments\u201d (John 14:15). <\/i> Jesus left his disciples with this final commandment. We call it the \u201cGreat Commission.\u201d, \u201cTherefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age. (Matthew 28:19-2, NLT)<\/i> Jesus said Go! Make disciples of all nations, baptize them, and teach them \u201cHis commandments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Starting with the Book of Matthew, it is written that after Jesus commanded John to baptize Him, he was led into the dessert. From His temptations we learned that Jesus proclaimed \u201cGod is our provider. He is Holy and He is sovereign over all.\u201d One could argue that Christ\u2019s responses to Satan\u2019s temptations in the dessert were His commandments. In my generalized summary of Christ’s responses, I believe Christ\u2019s first response was \u201cto live by faith in God.\u201d His second response was \u201cto trust in God\u2019s word.\u201d And His last response was \u201cto worship God alone.\u201d We are tempted in in the same way as Christ. There is no temptation we can not overcome, if we know His word. When Jesus returned from the desert He began His ministry and declared the favor of the Lord and His words are the food by which all Christians truly live and worship. I believe the most important of all His commands was given in John 13:34 \u201cA new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.\u201d <\/i>I believe if we all could just get our heads around that one, God\u2019s Kingdom would come and His will be done on earth as it is in heaven.<\/p>\n

Keeping the commands of Jesus begins with recognizing and knowing them. The following are a collection of Jesus\u2019 commands (taken directly from the Bible\u2019s \u201cRed Letters\u201d, various translations) are presented, as best as I can manage, in New Testament order. My main goal is to help you along your worship journey with Christ. As you read through Christ’s quoted commandments, pray for God to help you understand, observe and obey them throughout your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jesus said, \u201cIf ye love me, keep my commandments\u201d (John 14:15). Jesus left his disciples with this final commandment. We call it the \u201cGreat Commission.\u201d, \u201cTherefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"For the Love of Jesus: A Study into the Commandments of Jesus Christ","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[248,118,53,251,106],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worship","tag-commandments","tag-jesus","tag-love","tag-obey","tag-worship-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfZYJd-mA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}